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The Kate Adie Collection
Kate Adie OBE grew up in Sunderland and later became Chief News Correspondent at the BBC.
“The city has a wonderful history and growing up in cities like Sunderland does shape you, it makes you the person you are. Sunderland shaped me. It is all to do with where I come from, and I feel very strongly about that.” Kate Adie 2024
Kate’s Collection relates to her professional life, documenting a trailblazing broadcast journalism career covering major world events and reporting from war and combat zones including the Gulf and Yugoslavia. Kate’s reasons for depositing her archive with the University of Sunderland are to preserve a record of her professional career and to promote scholarship and research within humanities and social sciences.
The Collection is a unique archive of documents, reporter’s notebooks, photographs, BBC news clips and artifacts relating to Kate’s career and placed on indefinite loan with the University Library. Kate continues to add material to the Collection.
Kate’s published works include: Kindness of Strangers, Corsets to Camouflage, Into Danger and Nobody's Child. Kate maintains connections with Sunderland, referencing the city throughout her books. Kate holds honorary degrees from a number of Universities and is an Honorary Professor of Journalism at the University of Sunderland. She was awarded an OBE in 1993 and won the Richard Dimbleby Award from BAFTA in 1990.
The University has recently completed a project to catalogue the Kate Adie Collection using grant funding from Archives Revealed. To search the collection please use this link https://go.sunderland.ac.uk/kateadiecollection. Completion of this project provides an exciting opportunity to open the collection for wider and more inclusive engagement and interest, within a University of Sunderland academic context and also locally and nationally.
Due to the unique character of the material in our collections, items must be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room. Please see our policies for further information on the management of our collections and access arrangements. Please contact us to arrange an appointment as access hours are restricted. You can e-mail us at specialcollections@sunderland.ac.uk or write to us at Special Collections, Murray Health, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD.
